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Oil saves more lives than it kills Maybe. That alone does not mean we should continue to use oil when alternatives exist. >and it makes lives better for all o
by fnordfnordfnord 7y ago
Oil saves more lives than it kills
Maybe. That alone does not mean we should continue to use oil when alternatives exist.
>and it makes lives better for all of us.
No, it does not. There are many impoverished communities on the planet who reap relatively little or no benefit from oil use and suffer disproportionate burdens from its production and use, example: Africans.
> You can't just take the negatives and ignore all the positives.
You can't just ignore the negatives, or the evolution of the circumstances.
> the ability to keep an incubator running let alone the materials for creating
Oil is useful for creating and running an incubator, or any number of modern inventions, but is definitely not necessary for all of those things.
- ThomPete 7y agoI am talking about incubators for children not the company.
- fnordfnordfnord 7y agoYeah, a few bits of plastic, and some energy to power it. I got that.
- ThomPete 7y agoIt's not a few bits of plastic. It was the difference between whether my son who was born 10 weeks to early would both survive and be a normal kid or risk not survive and whether he would become normal.
- fnordfnordfnord 7y ago>It's not a few bits of plastic. That's what the oil contributed. >It was the difference between whether my son who was born 10 weeks to early would both survive Appreciated, but oil is simply not a necessary component for that to happen. It may be currently the most convenient but not necessary.
- ThomPete 7y agoIt's just not plastic.